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COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ASSURANCES 34 (2015-2016) SIXTEENTH LOK SABHA THIRTY-FOURTH REPORT REQUESTS FOR DROPPING OF ASSURANCES (ACCEDED TO) (Presented to Lok Sabha on 10 May, 2016) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI May, 2016/Vaisakha, 1938 (Saka) THIRTY-FOURTH REPORT COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ASSURANCES (2015-2016) (SIXTEENTH LOK SABHA) REQUESTS FOR DROPPING OF ASSURANCES (ACCEDED TO) (Presented to Lok Sabha on 10 May, 2016) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI May, 2016/Vaisakha, 1938 (Saka) CGA No. 284 Price: ` 194.00 © 2016 BY LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT Published under Rule 382 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha (Fifteenth Edition) and printed by the General Manager, Government of India Press, Minto Road, New Delhi-110 002. CONTENTS PAGE COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE (2015-2016) ........................................... (iii) INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................ (v) REPORT ...................................................................................................... 1 Requests for Dropping of Assurances (Acceded to) APPENDICES I TO XX I. USQ No. 3468 dated 23.12.2008 regarding 'Curb on Prostitution' 4 SQ No. 440 dated 02.09.2011 regarding 'Rehabilitation of Sex Workers' 6 USQ No. 805 dated 25.11.2011 regarding 'Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956'.................................................................... 10 II. General Discussion dated 06.09.2013 regarding 'The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill... 11 *III. USQ No. 4102 dated 07.08.2014 regarding 'Solar Power Plants' ...... 12 IV. SQ No. 353 dated 01.08.2014 regarding 'Indo-China Trade' ............ 23 V. USQ No. 3506 dated 04.08.2014 regarding 'Wafer Fabrication Manufacturing Facilities' ................................................................ 28 VI. USQ No. 3540 dated 04.08.2014 regarding ‘Domestic Manufacturing Telecom Equipment’ ....................................................................... 31 VII. USQ No. 4246 dated 07.08.2014 regarding 'Digitization of Land Titles' .............................................................................................. 40 VIII. SQ No. 357 dated 05.09.2012 regarding 'Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement' ..................................................................................... 42 *IX. USQ No. 389 dated 07.07.2009 regarding 'Cash for Food Scheme' .... 45 SQ No. 444 dated 04.08.2009 regarding 'Roadmap for Revamp of PDS' .. 49 USQ No. 2399 dated 16.08.2011 regarding 'Cash Transfer of Food Subsidy' .. 51 USQ No. 1488 dated 09.08.2011 regarding 'Cash Subsidy' .............. 52 SQ No. 12 dated 13.03.2012 regarding 'Computerisation of PDS' .... 53 USQ No. 6390 dated 15.05.2012 regarding 'Foodgrain Allocation Under PDS' ..................................................................................... 60 USQ No. 5221 dated 08.05.2012 regarding ' Aadhaar in PDS' .......... 65 USQ No. 6311 dated 15.05.2012 regarding 'Cash for Food Subsidy' .... 67 USQ No. 1460 dated 21.08.2012 regarding 'Cash for Foodgrains' ... 69 USQ No. 3784 dated 04.09.2012 regarding 'Evaluation of PDS' ....... 73 X. USQ No. 3056 dated 15.03.2011 regarding 'Blast Cases' ................. 77 SQ No. 25 dated 02.08.2011 regarding 'Terrorist Attacks' ................ 82 (ii) PAGE USQ No. 5440 dated 06.09.2011 regarding 'Pune and Mumbai Blasts' . 86 USQ No. 5520 dated 06.09.2011 regarding 'Terror and Communal Attacks' .......................................................................................... 88 USQ No. 1127 dated 20.03.2012 regarding 'Bomb Blasts' ................ 91 SQ No. 128 dated 21.08.2012 regarding 'Bomb Blasts at Pune' ....... 94 USQ No. 2715 dated 28.08.2012 regarding 'Terrorist Activities in Kerala' 98 USQ No. 352 dated 26.02.2013 regarding 'Terrorist Activities' ........ 102 USQ No. 3676 dated 05.08.2014 regarding 'Terrorist Activities' ...... 106 XI. SQ No. 322 dated 31.07.2014 regarding 'Revised Restructured Technology' Upgradation Fund Scheme (Supplementary by Shri C.R. Patil, MP) ......................................................................... 112 XII. USQ No. 6053 dated 03.05.2013 regarding 'Easing of Fund Transfer Norms' ............................................................................................ 118 XIII. USQ No. 4829 dated 22.12.2014 regarding 'Industrial Development Corporation' .................................................................................... 120 XIV. USQ No. 1790 dated 04.12.2006 regarding 'Improvement in Consumer Protection Council' ......................................................................... 123 XV. USQ No. 3860 dated 16.12.2014 regarding 'National Livestock Mission' .......................................................................................... 125 XVI. USQ No. 2981 dated 10.12.2014 regarding 'Fund Allocation for Nuclear Projects' ............................................................................. 128 XVII. SQ No. 40 dated 08.07.2014 regarding 'Rural Youths Participation in Sports' ........................................................................................ 132 XVIII. USQ No. 2424 dated 08.12.2014 regarding 'Steel Production'.......... 140 XIX. Minutes of the Sitting of the Commitee held on 15 February, 2016. .. 142 XX. Minutes of the Sitting of the Commitee held on 05 May, 2016. ...... 147 * Implementation Reports laid on the Table of the House on 09-03-2016. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ASSURANCES* (2015-2016) Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank" — Chairperson MEMBERS 2. Shri Rajendra Agrawal 3. Shri E. Ahamed 4. Shri Anto Antony 5. Shri Tariq Anwar 6. Prof. (Dr.) Sugata Bose 7. Shri Naranbhai Bhikhabhai Kachhadiya 8. Shri Bahadur Singh Koli 9. Shri Prahlad Singh Patel 10. Shri A.T. Nana Patil 11. Shri C.R. Patil 12. Shri Sunil Kumar Singh 13. Shri Taslimuddin 14. Shri K.C. Venugopal 15. Shri S.R. Vijayakumar SECRETARIAT 1. Shri R.S. Kambo — Joint Secretary 2. Shri S.C. Chaudhary — Director 3. Shri T.S. Rangarajan — Additional Director 4. Shri S.L. Singh — Deputy Secretary 5. Shri Rajesh Mohan — Committee Officer *The Committee has been constituted w.e.f. 01 September, 2015 vide Para No. 2348 of Lok Sabha Bulletin Part-II dated 31 August, 2015. (iii) INTRODUCTION I, the Chairperson of the Committee on Government Assurances, having been authorized by the Committee to submit the Report on their behalf, present this Thirty-Fourth Report (16th Lok Sabha) of the Committee on Government Assurances. 2. The Committee (2015-2016) at their sitting held on 15 February, 2016 inter-alia considered Memoranda Nos. 42 to 81 containing requests received from the Ministries/Departments for dropping of pending Assurances and decided to drop 18 Assurances. 3. At their sitting held on 05 May, 2016 the Committee (2015-2016) considered and adopted their Thirty-Fourth Report. 4. The Minutes of the aforesaid sittings of the Committee form part of this Report. NEW DELHI; DR. RAMESH POKHRIYAL “NISHANK” 09 May, 2016 Chairperson, 19 Vaisakha, 1938 (Saka) Committee on Government Assurances. (v) REPORT While replying to Questions in the House or during discussions on Bills, Resolutions, Motions, etc., Ministers sometimes give Assurances, undertakings or promises either to consider a matter, take action or furnish information to the House at some later date. An Assurance is required to be implemented by the Ministry concerned within a period of three months. Where a Ministry/Department are unable to implement the Assurance within the prescribed period of three months, that Ministry/Department are required to seek extension of time. In case, the Ministry find it difficult to implement the Assurance on one ground or the other, they are required to request the Committee on Government Assurances to drop the Assurance and such requests are considered by the Committee on merits and decisions taken to drop the Assurance or otherwise. 2. The Committee on Government Assurances (2015-16) inter alia considered the following requests received from various Ministries/Departments for dropping of Assurances at their sitting held on 15 February, 2016:— Sl. SQ/USQ No. & Ministry Subject No. Date 12 3 4 1 . USQ No. 3468 Women & Child Curb on Prostitution. dated 23.12.2008 Development Rehabilitation of Sex Workers. SQ No. 440 dated Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 02.09.2011 1956. USQ No. 805 dated (Appendix-I) 25.11.2011 2 . General Discussion Housing and Urban Discussion on the Street Vendors dated 06.09.2013 Poverty Alleviation (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill. (Appendix-II) *3. USQ No. 4102 Railways Solar Power Plants. dated 07.08.2014 (Appendix-III) 4 . SQ No. 353 dated Commerce and Industry Indo-China Trade. 01.08.2014 (Department of (Appendix-IV) Commerce) 5 . USQ No. 3506 Communications & Wafer Fabrication Manufacturing dated 04.08.2014 Information Technology Facilities. (Department of (Appendix-V) Electronics and Information Technology) 2 12 3 4 6 . USQ No. 3540 Communications and Domestic Manufacturing Telecom dated 04.08.2014 Information Technology Equipment. (Department of (Appendix-VI) Telecommunications) 7 . USQ No. 4246 Rural Development Digitization of Land Titles. dated 07.08.2014 (Department of Land (Appendix-VII) Resources) 8 . SQ No. 357 dated Finance Double Taxation Avoidance 05.09.2012 (Department of Agreement. Revenue) (Appendix-VIII) *9. USQ No. 389 dated Consumer Affairs, Food Cash for Food Scheme. 07.07.2009 and Public Distribution (Department